“It’s June. I’m tired of being brave.” Anne Sexton
June 2013
5 posts
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“When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you;…
“Recently, when I got out of the elevator at my usual hour, it occurred to me that my life, whose days more and more repeat themselves down to the smallest detail, resembles that punishment in which each pupil must according to his offense write down the same meaningless (in repetition, at least) sentence ten times, a hundred times or even oftener; except that in my case the punishment is given me with only this limitation: “as many times as you can stand it.”
—Franz Kafka, (via substantia-nigra)
“Can it not be me,
just once can it not be me,
as the sacrifice?” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
just once can it not be me,
as the sacrifice?” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
May 2013
18 posts
“I heard somebody define heaven once,” she said, looking at Pearl, “as a place where, when you get there, all the dogs you ever loved run to greet you.”
—Robert B. Parker (via barbara)
“We tend to think animals are lower than us, but all the scientists in the world couldn’t design and operate a bumblebee’s wing. We can’t jump or run very fast, and we can’t carry vast weights like an ant can. We can’t see in the dark and we can’t fly except crammed in a noisy tube like sardines, which doesn’t count. Humans compared to animals are almost totally deaf, and we can’t smell a fart in an elevator by their standards. We are finite and separate, and neurotic, while the consciousness of an animal is at peace and eternal. We strive and go crazy to become more important. Animals rest and sleep and enjoy the company of each other. We think we have evolved upwards from animals but we have lost almost all of their qualities and abilities. The idea that animals don’t have consciousness or that they don’t have a soul is rather crass. It shows a lack of consciousness. They talk, they have families, they feel things, they act individually or together to solve problems, they often care of their young as a tribal unit. They play, they travel, and medicate themselves when they get sick. They cry when others in the herd die, they know about us humans. Of course they have a soul, a very pristine one. We humans are only now attempting with the recent rise in consciousness to achieve the soul that animals have naturally.”
—Stuart Wilde (x)
“What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don’t think so. It’s the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.”
—Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy: The Art of the Movie (via tubulartrevor)
“The attitude of maintaining oneself in permanent happiness is actually the expression of ego or confused, neurotic mind. It is the neurotic desire to maintain myself, me, my whole being, as a solid entity, as ego. This approach could be called spiritual materialism.”
—Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness - Chögyam Trungpa (via rominima)
“Androgen agitates. Estrogen sedates. Man’s moral danger is aggression. Woman’s moral danger is stasis.”
—
Camille Paglia
Sexual Personae
(via ratak-monodosico)
“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter” —(via journalofanobody)
― Katherine Anne Porter” —(via journalofanobody)
